Current Events > lonely, burned out, and depressed: millennials entering the 2020's

(+) Yeah! (+)

I can think of a few possible contributing factors.

Duncanwii posted...

My point is blatantly lying for dramatic effect isnt good for the general public.

Who says they're lying?

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Umbreon posted...

Who says they're lying?

Anyone with common sense.

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All I'm saying is turnabout is fair play

If the older generation wants to treat us like shit, then get used to having it flung right back

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Duncan, you really don't have to come into every single topic to keep telling us how much you don't believe in climate change.
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Duncanwii posted...

Anyone with common sense.

You um....

You may not be aware how that statement could be seen with you saying it.

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Yeah I recently got officially diagnosed as super duper hardcore depressed

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This is what happens when self esteem movement clashes with real life. :/

You are the best, don't let anyone tell you any different! Real life: I don't think so!

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Yeah this is all super relatable. My mental health sucks and I have no friends

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I thought millennials were the progressive and wealthy from social media/bitcoins generation

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Umbreon posted...

You um....

You may not be aware how that statement could be seen with you saying it.

Even if climate change effects man, saying we'll be extinct or on the edge of it in only a few decades is absurd bordering on idiotic.

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Parappa09 posted...

"Deaths of despair" are also on the rise.
More millennials are also dying "deaths of despair," or deaths related to drugs, alcohol, and suicide, Jamie Ducharme reported for Time in June, citing a report by the public-health groups Trust for America's Health and Well Being Trust.

While these deaths have increased across all ages in the past 10 years, they've increased the most among younger Americans, Ducharme said. They accounted for the deaths of about 36,000 American millennials in 2017 alone, according to the report. Drug overdoses were the most common cause of death.

Hey look! Even if you legalize drugs, millennials will just OD on them because /depression

Parappa09 posted...

Millennials don't always have someone to share their mental burdens with they're less likely to have social support than other generations, as they're marrying later and less connected to political or religious communities, according to Ducharme.

In fact, YouGov called millennials "the loneliest generation" based on a survey that polled 1,254 US adults. It found that millennials were more likely to feel lonely than previous generations. Of survey respondents, 30% of millennials said they always or often felt lonely, compared with 20% of Generation X and 15% of boomers.

Oh noes~ Choosing not to marry or go to church because "archaic religion-is-fake" or "I don't want to be tied down through marriage/kids" is all on them.

More millennials also reported in the survey that they had no acquaintances, friends, close friends, or best friends.

Should probably drop the whole "CANCEL CULTURE/You're CANCELED!!" sthick just because someone says something "offensive" or has a differing political opinion than you.

Parappa09 posted...

"Mental health is becoming the next frontier of diversity and inclusion, and employees want their companies to address it," the authors wrote.

Well, this is part of the problem. Pushing the burden onto others to solve your issues is the expectation of sheltering from the real world.

Duncanwii posted...

Even if climate change effects man, saying we'll be extinct or on the edge of it in only a few decades is absurd bordering on idiotic.

Know what's even more idiotic, bordering on self destruction?

Not giving a shit about climate change.

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oh and btw

Merry FUCKING Christmas
>__>

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Umbreon posted...

Know what's even more idiotic, bordering on self destruction?

Not giving a shit about climate change.

See, it's caring about every little **** that causes depression as well.

There's a reason why people who are low stressed are more happy.

See post #66 for my response.

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Umbreon posted...

Know what's even more idiotic, bordering on self destruction?

Not giving a shit about climate change.

People will survive. First world nations have far in advance to prepare. It will be fine.

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Willy_Lopez posted...

This is what happens when self esteem movement clashes with real life. :/

You are the best, don't let anyone tell you any different! Real life: I don't think so!

Actually, that gets to a big part of the problem: millennials are systematically gaslit into believing everything is their fault. Were sensitive snowflakes, were financially illiterate, we dont work hard enough, we complain too much, etc. etc. etc. All this even though the available evidence points to large-scale, systemic issues being the problem. We are told that all of this is our fault and chastised for daring to suggest that things shouldnt be like this. Were gaslit so effectively some of us do it to ourselves and others!
That destroys people who are struggling just to live, because they start to think they deserve to suffer and that life has nothing but suffering in store for them.
But we dont deserve to suffer. We have to open our eyes and share our struggles and fight to fix society. For ourselves and for the Zoomers and everyone else.

Damn, almost all of that applies to me. The future is bleak.

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I see a lot of this stemming from economic anxiety tbh

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Duncanwii posted...

People will survive. First world nations have far in advance to prepare. It will be fine.

Uh... motherfuckers have been ignoring or actively impeding preparation for like 40 years. Many corporations and world leaders are still fighting in support of climate change.

Hearing the news and egging it on for decades does not sound like sure thing planning

But somehow nuclear war is the real issue

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Lmao

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Duncanwii posted...

People will survive. First world nations have far in advance to prepare. It will be fine.

Okay see Duncan, this mentality is ignorant. Because it's basically saying "We'll make it. I don't know how we'll make it but we'll make it so who cares?"

Let me tell you something. This world does not give a fuck about you, me, or any other human on this planet. Literally every human could die right now, and the world will continue on.

But we as a civilization? We aren't still alive by being apathetic. We aren't still alive by sitting on our asses and waiting. Communities who sit and wait tend to die off. Those who want to continue surviving can't afford to wait until the last fucking minute.

What if those first world nations took your attitude? What if everyone went "Who cares, we'll get to that bridge when we cross it"?

This isn't anime. We're not main characters. We're not going to survive "just because".

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I'm neither Millennial nor GenX and I will not be ignored!

Duncanwii posted...

People will survive. First world nations have far in advance to prepare. It will be fine.

State of this guy LMAO

hockeybub89 posted...

Uh... motherfuckers have been ignoring or actively impeding preparation for like 40 years. Many corporations and world leaders are still fighting in support of climate change.

Hearing the news and egging it on for decades does not sound like sure thing planning

But somehow nuclear war is the real issue

Yep. Because they'll be dead by the time we get the check.

Then we have to explain to gen Z and whatever gen that comes after them why this all happened. I don't foresee them being sympathetic.

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Conflict posted...

Duncan whatever you do, do not make another topic asking "Why does no one like me?" when you go out of your way to be dismissive of what other people try to educate you on. No one's falling for that shit anymore.

I dont really care what anyone thinks about my opinion on climate change.

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Im so sorry to hear that. Do you think youll be ok?
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HiddenRoar posted...

Instant block

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As a millennial I gotta say I was fucking miserable until I just stopped giving a shit about keeping up with all the trends and flare pretending to keep up with shit I don't care about, that I think more need to do. Mental health went way up after separating myself from almost all social media too.

It's easy to fall into an unending circle of toxic bullshit and not really realize what it's doing to you online these days.

Tbh, when young kids are being bombarded with negativity and doomsday predictions, young men being told they are bad because of what people did 150 years ago, young females being told that they have to be career focused instead of wanting to raise children. (Just a few things that affect mental state)

There's a link between the breakdown on traditional gender roles and depression on the rise...

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Get out of the big city, the big cities in the US are bad for you.
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R_Jackal posted...

As a millennial I gotta say I was fucking miserable until I just stopped giving a shit about keeping up with all the trends and flare pretending to keep up with shit I don't care about, that I think more need to do. Mental health went way up after separating myself from almost all social media too.

It's easy to fall into an unending circle of toxic bullshit and not really realize what it's doing to you online these days.

Social media was a mistake tbh.

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levelshooter posted...

Tbh, when young kids are being bombarded with negativity and doomsday predictions, young men being told they are bad because of what people did 150 years ago, young females being told that they have to be career focused instead of wanting to raise children. (Just a few things that affect mental state)

There's a link between the breakdown on traditional gender roles and depression on the rise...

Yikes

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wormwyrmwyvern posted...

Yikes

It's true though, and it's worse in big cities where in a lot of them, fake social justice and fake liberalism runs every aspect of people's lives.
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Hop103 posted...

You're a joke.

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wormwyrmwyvern posted...

You're a joke.

More like you are the joke.
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Wait a sec @Hop103 is the clown who called pride parades "degenerate" iirc

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And here is where we drift off topic in to personal attacks between people who think their own views of society are the correct ones.

Of course the anti-LGBTQ+ clown wants enforced gender roles.

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R_Jackal posted...

And here is where we drift off topic in to personal attacks between people who think their own views of society are the correct ones.

Oh I'm sorry I don't play nice with bigoted pieces of shit.

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wormwyrmwyvern posted...

Oh I'm sorry I don't play nice with bigoted pieces of shit.

The two of you are exactly what I was bringing up as the problem with mental health.

Neither of you will change the others opinion, you both will just throw tantrums until no one else can speak and derail things so you can see which one has the bigger e-genitals.

wormwyrmwyvern posted...

Wait a sec @Hop103 is the clown who called pride parades "degenerate" iirc

The gaslighting is strong with that one.

I read Thus Spoke Zarathustra some years ago, and the line that sticks with me all this time later is this:
O my brothers, your nobility should not look backward but ahead! Exiles shall you be from all father- and forefather-lands! Your children's land shall you love: this love shall be your new nobility the undiscovered land in the most distant sea. For that I bid your sails search and search. In your children you shall make up for being the children of your fathers: thus shall you redeem all that is past.